EDITORIAL: Hutchison in campaign mode
Last year Kay Bailey Hutchison said she’d step down from the U.S. Senate to campaign full time for governor. Then she said she could do both.
With polls showing her trailing Gov. Rick Perry badly, we suspect she has good reason to question her own decision.
Voters might wonder, too. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans split ranks as some joined Democrats in voting for a $15 billion jobs-creation bill that John Cornyn, Texas’ junior senator, condemned as fiscally irresponsible. Hutchison missed the vote.
Her office furnished no indication of her stand on a bill that attracted, among others, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass.
We appreciate the pressures of a hard-fought gubernatorial campaign. Still, it’s unfortunate when voters are deprived of the experience and insights that Hutchison has so often brought to her job.
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